Active Lines & Dancing Buildings

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Date: 2013-09-10 Author: Michelle East Categories: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, Art Lessons, Drawing Lessons, Elementary Art, Elements of Art Lessons, K-1st Grade, Mixed Media Lessons, Oil Pastel Lessons Tags: active lines, curved line, dancing cityscape, dancing skyscrapers, diagonal line, elementary art lesson, funkytown painting, janet karam, mixed media, oil pastel lesson, types of lines, zig zag line

Dancing Skyscrapers Active lines elementary art lesson teaches students about line and the artist Janet Karam.

There are 5 types of lines: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zig-zag and curved.

• Horizontal & vertical lines give off feelings calmness.
• Active lines are zig-zag, curved and diagonal lines.
• How to make a building look 3D.

We studied the artist Janet Karam & her “Funkytown” Series of abstracted cityscapes. Some of her art can be found at the Mary Karam Gallery.

Supplies: 12×18″ Construction Paper, Crayola 28ct Colored Oil Pastel Sticks, plastic forks, tempera paint

Instructions:

1. Draw buildings in PENCIL using the 3 kinds of active lines. Use 3D techniques to make the buildings look 3D.
2. Outline all lines with oil pastels-each building a different color.
3. Using 2 values of each color (a light & a darker value), color the front of the building the light value & the side of the building the darker value.
4. Use broken forks (2 prongs together) & tempera paints to paint in fire works.

Oil Pastel Outline on colored paper

Color with 2 values

Painted Fireworks

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